Product Description

The game of mice and mazes has children scurrying their mice to the opposite side of the playing board. It is not a simple task though, as each player may move their mouse 1 space at a time or decide to install a "blocker" to delay their opponent. Yet the maze that is built may cause delays for every mouse, including their own, as it approaches the finish line.

Except that Quoridor Kid is cuter. And takes less time to play. And
the board is 7x7 instead of 9x9. And there are 16 instead of 20 fences.

They play the same. They offer the same exercise in strategic
maze-making. One is cute and short. The other is larger, darker, more
brooding, more adult. But no matter which you are playing, Quoridor or
the Kid, as child or adult, it's the same fun and fascination.

Which is rather remarkable, come to think of it, that a kid's version
of an adult game should prove as maturely playworthy as the adult
version. Which makes this version a special gift to parents. Because
here's a game in a version that will appeal to your child as it will
to to you. Your child will be especially sensitive to the fun of it -
to the fantasy, the remarkably skillful humor of the mouse-in-maze
metaphor - and consequently, they might laugh more often than you will.

It is a challenging game. You begin on the edges of a 7x7 grid. You,
as a mouse whose nose is the same color as a piece of wooden cheese
placed on the opposite side of the board. You take turns moving your
mouse, horizontally or vertically, one space at a time. Your goal and
purpose, as in much of life, is to get to your cheese first. You do
that by moving forward, or by placing fences between your opponent and
her cheese. Moving and fencing, the board begins to look like a maze,
and the strategic depth is equally amazing.

All that metaphorically-appropriate mouse-and-cheese cuteness aside,
getting to your cheese first is something you can take seriously,
beyond metaphor. And as a parent, it is a special thrill when, as you
inevitably will, you lose a game to your own child - fair and square.
You won't have to say things like "well, then, you're the second
winner," or make just the mistake that will "accidentally" give your
child the victory. Because playing Quoridor, Kid or not, can get as
challenging to the grown-up as it can to the child - and still look fun!

Which is what makes the Fun of Quoridor Kid so Major. What else would
you call kind of fun can you get from a game that requires deep,
logical thinking, that looks and plays as inviting to adults as it is
to kids, as it is to kids without adults?

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